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Houston attorney weighs in on customer shooting, killing taqueria robber
https://www.yahoo.com/news/houston-attorney-weighs-customer-shooting-031355430.html ^ | 1-7-23 | na

Posted on 01/08/2023 5:21:29 PM PST by ARGLOCKGUY

Houston police are asking a bystander who shot a man 9 times and killed him while he was in the act of robbing people inside a Houston restaurant to come forward for questioning. FOX 26's Gabby Hart spoke with local criminal defense attorney Price Brown about if the incident could be considered self-defense.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

He would be a fool to come forward.


61 posted on 01/08/2023 8:02:27 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: cquiggy

Hero might be a bit strong considering the head shot. And likely not the first time he shot someone. More like a hit man p.o.ed at having his dinner spoiled.
Regardless the patrons were all in fear of their lives from the robber who wont try that again.


62 posted on 01/08/2023 8:04:59 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: HamiltonJay

After the shooter finished up inside and was walking out he threw a coffee cup at the body.

A prosecuter can make this look pretty ugly and a guy like this may have a nasty past, and may even be carrying illegally.


63 posted on 01/08/2023 8:06:53 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: PapaBear3625

So what you’re saying is that it’s not okay to shoot someone who’s already dead?


64 posted on 01/08/2023 8:40:34 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: TStro

Must have been a Rogue Gun according to Roger Goodman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnetFL4Cc54&ab_channel=StevenCrowder


65 posted on 01/08/2023 8:41:38 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: BipolarBob

I was hoping for the Twinkie Defense!


66 posted on 01/08/2023 8:43:28 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: DesertRhino

“He handed the money back to everyone then split.”

The robber was a re-distributionist and the guy who shot was a counter-re-distributionist!


67 posted on 01/08/2023 8:45:46 PM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

If he was still moving, then he may have been reaching for a weapon.
If he wasn’t moving, then he was already dead. Only charge might be desecrating a body or tampering with evidence.
DA should have to prove which shot killed him.


68 posted on 01/08/2023 9:15:27 PM PST by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Howie66

I guess I’m puzzled why nobody pointed that out.


69 posted on 01/08/2023 9:23:50 PM PST by LibertyWoman (America, the Handwriting is on the Wall. )
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To: HamiltonJay
However, the law is the law..."

The law has degenerated into mere pretense. It is simply a tool to keep the peasantry obedient to the authorities. The government is selectively declining to protect ordinary citizens from violent criminal predators and uses "the law" to enforce that policy.

It should not be that way, but it is. Criminals who belong to a protected class routinely get bailed out of jail before their victims get out of a hospital.

The robber got exactly what he deserved in this instance.

"The Law" is limited to what most people are willing to tolerate. Punishing people who stop a restaurant armed robbery is beyond what a great number of people are willing to tolerate.

The people who are running the "criminal justice system" are the ones who are responsible for the rise of "do it yourself" justice. This is not a stable or good condition.

70 posted on 01/08/2023 9:28:39 PM PST by flamberge (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Zhang Fei

I don’t think there’s much chance of a Harris County grand jury indicting him regardless of what the DA wants, and I’ll be surprised if Ogg pushes for an indictment.

After seeing the unedited video for the first time today, though, I can see why the cops want to talk to him. It does look like he delivered a coup de grace to the robber after he’s down and unarmed. I’m not complaining, though, and grand juries in Harris County have no-billed for far more questionable uses of force. (See Joe Horn or the guy who beat the child molester to death).

A couple personal notes: 1. I had a case against the lawyer they interviewed at the link. 5th year lawyer and a weird duck. He must be friends with the reporter, because I’m not sure why else he was consulted. He was generally right, though.

2. Funny coincidence that you pinged me about Ogg, because I ran into her when I was out with my 4-year-old today. We happened to be somewhere with the trifecta of no-carry signs (30.05, 30.06, and 30.07) and I was carrying a government-frame 1911 that was printing badly through my golf shirt. So of course the DA spots me there and comes over to give me a hug. If she noticed she didn’t say anything.


71 posted on 01/08/2023 9:50:55 PM PST by The Pack Knight
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Not Guilty.


72 posted on 01/08/2023 9:53:51 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Oh HE!! No.🖕


73 posted on 01/08/2023 10:47:37 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: HamiltonJay

Did you read the pot of the Deputy Sheriff who no one is looking for the shooter? No one cares, and no one thinks the guy would get convicted to begin with.


74 posted on 01/08/2023 10:55:10 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

This was the alternate ending for Pulp Fiction. “And I will strike down on thee with great vengeance”


75 posted on 01/08/2023 11:25:21 PM PST by KingofZion
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Gives a new meaning to “carry-out restaurant”.


76 posted on 01/08/2023 11:28:17 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: DesertRhino

got it Chief - if you need me I’ll be over there at the blackboard writing ‘dont say hey you’ 100 times...


77 posted on 01/09/2023 12:08:38 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: LibertyWoman; All

Yes but.... he (defender) shot the perp several times and then walked over to the perp who was on the ground and by then unarmed did a head shot.

The shot or shots after there was no longer a threat = problem.

Shooter/defender didn’t empty his gun. He shot several times. Then shot more. Then that head shot.

He needs to shut up and lawyer up.


78 posted on 01/09/2023 3:35:27 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: DesertRhino

Good points and theory.

The shooter/defender seemed even casual with the final headshot - he’d been there before. As you said, likely back in Mexico.


79 posted on 01/09/2023 3:39:53 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: DesertRhino
And I also haven’t heard an ID on the rapper turning his life around who got shot.

He dindu nuffin'!


80 posted on 01/09/2023 4:58:48 AM PST by DCBryan1 (Delete FB, TWTR, GOOGL, AMZN, YHOO, Gmail/chrome. Use Gab, Brave + DDG, VPN, Freerepublic )
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